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Science 18 July 1969:
Vol. 165. no. 3890, pp. 309 - 310
DOI: 10.1126/science.165.3890.309
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Hyperpolarizing and Depolarizing Receptor Potentials in the Scallop Eye

Anthony L. F. Gorman 1 and John S. McReynolds 2

1 Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and Laboratory of Neuropharmacology, National Institute of Mental Health at St. Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, D.C. 20032
2 Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and Laboratory of Neurophysiology, National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke, Bethesda, Maryland 20014

Depolarizing and hyperpolarizing responses to light were recorded intracellularly from different cells in the scallop retina. Both types of potentials appear to be primary effects of light on photoreceptor cells.


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